A Gorilla and Child
Magnificent animal Harambe,
the Silverback gorilla killed at the zoo.
Lovely child, the three-year-old who
jumped in Harambe’s den.
The mother took her son to the zoo
and the child behaved like a child.
Harambe showed great restraint
and didn’t do what a gorilla could.
He was curious, kind and patient
until the screaming spooked him.
Then he dragged the child like a doll
through the water up to a wall.
Today Harambe, not the child,
would still be alive if the mother had
taken the child in utero to
Planned Parenthood and not the zoo.
Donal Mahoney
